Social services people at DH
In a Parliamentary answer Phil Fullahope provided info on who works on social care matters at the Department of Health. This blogging program does not do tables, so you get this answer in a downloadable sheet, or you can look on Hansard at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm081117/text/81117w0052.htm#08111824000035.
The claim is that everyone at DH contributes to both health and social care. I beg leave to doubt this: it is stuffed full of people with a health background who know and care little about social care. Someone said to me the other day that there are as many people employed in social care as in healthcare, if you count all the social care workers on the front line, so why doesn’t it get equal billing at the DH? I don’t know